That new default Android icon in 5.1 we pointed out earlier appears to be showing up in more places than expected. It's the basis for an updated Android Beam icon, which you can see below.

Left: Old, Right: New

Nice, right? The 5.0 icon was very retro, just like the old default icon that was replaced. Google only just gave Android Beam a spot in the share menu as of Android 5.0, so maybe that icon was a little rushed.

The only share icon left standing out is Bluetooth, which is still rounded and 3D-ish. The system component icon is still old and busted too, but that only appears in the app settings.

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I wonder if you planted them, if you'd get a giant Android that you could climb into the heavens with. Literally Andy and Beanstalk.

Man of Steel ☑

Too many awesome small updates. Hope it is gonna be a fast and smooth OS. :D

Matthew Merrick

Speed and stability are literally the only things I care about with 5.1

Benedict

So far - the speed after the update (with fullwipe) on a Nexus 5 is amazing!

Jose Romero

Android Bean...haha

Oh, and thanks for left:old right:new.

matteventu

OMG it's so sexy! *-*

trhj

Beautiful. BTW are those screenshots from two different phones ? The nav bar heights are not the same.

matteventu

Probably 5.0 is Nexus 6 and 5.1 a Nexus 5 :)

JSo

The only thing I don't get is why it still uses the old NFC sounds. Ever since 5.0, I noticed there are new NFC sounds in system/media/audio/ui/ and I've never heard them used anywhere.

Chris

is there a rooted stock 5.1 for the Nexus 6 to flash yet?!

yahyoh

Does it still use bluetooth for sending content ?

Marko

Love all the small changes that they are making. Finally some attention to detail.

Blendi Krasniqi

It's like they finally care about consistency... :)

crackinthewall

Will Google ever make the jump to WiFi Direct for Android Beam?

JSo

How does WiFi direct work. I see it under WiFi Advanced settings but I have never used it

crackinthewall

Supposedly you can turn it on and send files over wifi to another WiFi Direct capable phone just like how you would with Bluetooth. I have an Xperia and I had to do it using File Commander. It's not that consistent and it would sometimes fail when you send it to a phone from another manufacturer. I was hoping that if Google implemented it as part of Android Beam, it would be more consistent regardless of manufacturer and it would also give Samsung an incentive to ditch S Beam.

sQueezedhe

it's used wifi direct since enabling pics/vid transfers.

Simon Belmont

Hmm. You sure about that?

Because that would be great. My wife and often send videos of our kids between our phones so they can be posted to our respective social networks, and if it was via Wi-Fi Direct, that would be fantastic.

miri

I'm pretty sure that was just S Beam on Samsung devices.

crackinthewall

Nope, that's S Beam. Android Beam still uses bluetooth for pictures and videos. It can be used to send any file now but you'll have to make do with bluetooth.

Nice to see so much material being implemented in even the tiniest of places #materiyolo

DJ SPY

These graphic changes are pretty neat. Now, whatever happened to Project Volta? I'm still scratching my head over how my Nexus 6 with Pure Android doesn't get as good a battery life as the Note 4 with all its extra software features and the evil, touch wiz weighing it down.